#exhibition catalogs

[uwmspeccoll]

Wood Engraving Wednesday

LAWRENCE KEATY

In this wood engraving entitled Taipei, American artist Lawrence Keaty (b. 1986) offers us a vision of the city he was born in and where he lived when he made this print in 2020. The print is made from six separate blocks and together measure 65cm x 35cm (25.5" x 14"). The print was selected by my Wisconsin colleagues Tracy Honn and Jim Moran for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN). This image is from the catalog for that travelling show.

Lawrence Keaty received a BA from Kenyon College with a major in Studio Art and he earned his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis in 2010. He taught English in Taiwan and South Korea from 2011 to 2019 and then worked as a writer/editor for Global Village Organization in Taipei for a year before returning to the U.S. (New Mexico) where he currently works as a UX/UI designer as well as a professional artist.

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– MAX, Head, Special Collections and juror for the WEN Fifth Triennial Exhibition.

#Wood Engraving Wednesday #wood engravings #wood engravers #Lawrence Keaty #Taipei #Wood Engraver's Network #WEN #WEN Fourth Triennial Exhibition #exhibitions #exhibition catalogs

[uartslibraries]

Engineer, agitator, constructor : the artist reinvented, 1918-1939 : the Merrill C. Berman Collection

// organized by Jodi Hauptman and Adrian Sudhalter

N6487 .N4 M8634 2020

#new books #new materials #uarts #greenfield library #uartslibraries #private collections #politics #political posters #european #20th century #russianart #commercial art #history #graphic arts #modernism #modernist art #avant garde #exhibition catalogs

[garadinervi]

Hannah Höch, Astronomie, (collage), 1922 [The Mayor Gallery, London. © Hannah Höch / DACS, London / VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn]

[Bibl.: The Photomontages of Hannah Höch, Organized by Maria Makela, Peter Boswell, Essays by Peter Boswell, Maria Makela, Carolyn Lanchner, Chronology by Kristin Makholm, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1996, p. 43 (pdf here). Exhibitions: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, October 20, 1996 – February 2, 1997; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, February 26 – May 20, 1997; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, June 26 – September 14, 1997]

#graphic design #art #collage #visual writing #exhibition #catalogue #catalog #hannah höch #maria makela #peter boswell #carolyn lanchner #kristin makholm #walker art center #moma #the museum of modern art #lacma #los angeles county museum of art #1920s #1990s

[balu8]

From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)

directed by  Gorō Miyazaki

Katsuya Kondo Exhibition Postcard

#Katsuya Kondo #Studio Ghibli Katsuya Kondo catalog Art Exhibition 2017 #from up on poppy hill #studio ghibli #hayao miyazaki #umi

[sylvies-chen]

lucy in that new sneak peek: being in this secret relationship with you isn’t a choice, tim. it’s a game, and I’m winning

#like the way she read an entire catalog just to make a cover story about going to an exhibit… #she’s being so thorough about it I LOVE HER #I wouldn’t be surprised if they make a competition about it lol #the rookie #chenford #lucy chen

[othmeralia]

Recently, I was able to put together a small rare book exhibit of new acquisitions and some cataloging quirks!

In this exhibit:

Tabulae medicae seu medicina domestica euporista ac facile parabili experientia at[que] authoritate comprobata medicamenta continens, das ist, Kleine Hauß-Apothek (1673)

Magiae naturalis libri viginti (1644)

Medicina magnetica, or, The rare and wonderful art of curing by sympathy (1656)

De secretis naturae (1542)

Cours de chymie (1679)

Essai sur l'éducation des aveugles, ou Exposé de différens moyens (1786)

Der werth der bestehenden Milchproben für die Milchpolizei (1866)

Each book in this mini-exhibit features something fun or cool (to me) I encountered while cataloging. For instance, the German title was so fun because of the English translation- the milk problem for the milk police? Love it! Magiae Naturalis had so many pagination mistakes, including page 413 written as 143 with an upside down 4. How'd that happen in the printing process?

Putting this together was incredibly fun and a worthwhile professional experience! Hoping to put more exhibits together in the future!

#rare books #book exhibits #special collections #old books #rare book exhibits #displays #16th century #17th century #18th century #19th century #history of science #science history #cataloging #catalogers #libraries #othmeralia

[drawdownbooks]

For almost 50 years, Brazilian-born New York–based artist Lydia Okumura (b. 1948), like her contemporaries Dorothea Rockburne and Robert Irwin, has explored the realm of geometric abstraction by challenging our perception of space in her sculptures, installations, and works on paper. In the 1970s, as a young artist in her native São Paulo, she was introduced to Conceptual art, Minimalism, Land Art, and Arte Povera through the Japanese art magazine Bijutsu Techou. These movements, along with Brazilian Concretism and Neoconcretism, influenced Okumura’s dynamic work in which she uses simple materials such as string, glass and paint to balance line, plane and shadow.

This handsome exhibition catalog, produced to accompany the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States at the University of Buffalo Art Gallery and to encourage a critical reassessment of Okumura’s oeuvre within art history, is a rich document of her minimal practice and independent vision. The catalog includes an essay on Okumura and her work by curator Rachel Adams; an account of vanguardism in Brazilian art from 1960 to 1975 by art historian Mari Rodriguez Binnie; a conversation between Adams and Okumura; and extensive photo documentation of Okumura’s work from the 1970s until today.

Edited by Rachel Adams & Charlie Tatum

Designed by Mark Owens with Sarah Cleeremans

Published by Sternberg Press and the UB Art Galleries Printed in an edition of 1,200 copies

In English and Portuguese

Softcover, 112 pages, 48 b&w and 56 color images, 9.5 × 11.5 inches

ISBN: 978-3-95679-291-5

#Lydia Okumur #art book #artist book #Brazilian artist #exhibition catalog #Mark Owens #Sternberg Press #female* artist #sculpture book #Draw Down Books

[internationalemeteorologie]

Max Ernst

Beyond painting (from The Graphic Oeuvre, Brusberg Documents Vol. 3, Hanover, Galerie Brusberg).1972

#max ernst #art prints #lithography #surrealism #dadaism #modern art #german-french artist #exhibition catalog

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #FroggyFriday:

Frog trio in amber colored glass by René Lalique (French, 1860-1945), d. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); likely originally a button or stickpin, a guilded brass mount was later added to make it a brooch. Walters Art Museum

Lalique was one of the finest jewelers of the Art Nouveau period, but his movement into mainly glassworks was concurrent with the rise of Art Deco; this piece from 1911 is a good example of this transitional period in design.

Here is an even earlier example:

Frog necklace by Lalique, c. 1902-3, 18k gold, diamond, enamel, and glass. Private collection.

Although this fabulous frog necklace is still from within the Art Nouveau period, these chunky square frogs seem like precursors to the later Art Deco aesthetic, as well as Lalique's own shift from jewelry to art glass. As noted in the 2008 exhibition catalog for Artistic Luxury: Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique, "Lalique's final designs in jewelry incorporated glass as the major element in repeating patterns of abstracted forms such as frogs" (p. 46; Lalique's frog necklace is cat.152, photo on p. 49).

BTW, that whole catalog is full of photos of amazing pieces, with lots of animal motifs! #BookRecommendation:

#Rene Lalique #Lalique #Art Nouveau #Art Deco #20th century art #1900s #1910s #decorative arts #jewelry #art glass #glassworks #button #brooch #necklace #metalwork #exhibition catalog #frog #frogs #Froggy Friday #animals in art

[uwmspeccoll]

Yet Another Wood-engraved Feathursday

CINDY KOOPMAN

This 10 x 8 in (20.4 x 20.32 cm) wood engraving entitled Grasshopper (because, after all, there are some grasshoppers in it) by Minnesota artist Cindy Koopman is very reminiscent of our daily experience here in Special Collections. Every day, sometimes three or four times a day, the green roof outside our windows gets visited by a gang of 3-7 crows that investigate the undergrowth, jump and flutter about, toss random objects into the air, and on occasion actually take a slide down the solar panels on the roof just for fun! They are endlessly fascinating, and every day when they arrive all work stops in Special Collections and the entire staff line up along the windows to watch crows be crows for five minutes or so. It's just a part of our workday, but also one of its highlights.

Cindy Koopman is a Minnesota artist with an MFA in printmaking, and is a faculty member at Normandale Community College in Bloomington, MN. This print was selected for inclusion in the Fourth Triennial Exhibition 2020-2022 of the American wood engravers society, the Wood Engravers’ Network (WEN), and the image is from the catalog for that traveling show.

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#Feathursday #Women's History Month #wood engravings #wood engravers #women wood engravers #Cindy Koopman #Grasshoppers #Crows #American Crow #Wood Engravers' Network #WEN #WEN Fourth Triennial Exhibition #exhibitions #exhibition catalogs #uwm special collections #birds #birbs!

[talesofedo]

2022 Shinsengumi Exhibition book arrived. Since I can't go see the actual thing (on account of being an ocean away), this is the next best thing and I'm excited to share some of it with everyone.

... once the cat wakes up... 🙄

#shared #shinsengumi exhibition 2022 #exhibition catalog #late edo period #bakumatsu period

[garadinervi]

Pino Tovaglia, December 3, 1923 / 2023 — 100

Images: Pino Tovaglia: La regola che corregge l'emozione / The rule that corrects emotion, Edited and Designed by Massimo Pitis, Corraini Edizioni, Mantova, 2005. Catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Pino Tovaglia: La regola che corregge l'emozione, Curated by Massimo Pitis with Cristina Dell'Edera, Art Book Milano, Milano, January 19 – April 2, 2005

#graphic design #illustration #exhibition #catalogue #catalog #cover #pino tovaglia #massimo pitis #cristina dell'edera #art book milano #corraini #2000s

[honmyoseagull]

Made me remember why I loved art history as a discipline, when it's not only staring at the style of an artwork but going beyond, hunting clues in the archives about its creation and the people involved in it, considering its relevance within the society of its time, interrogating museography, the relation between artist and model, the courage to say "we don't know" when sources are scarce, and special mention for queer themes and Heny James, James Baldwin & Colm Toibin cameos.

#book rec #john singer sargent #beautiful art #thomas mckeller (model) #boston #exhibit catalog

[karmaalwayswins]

Now Reading:

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme “The Incidental Insurgents” (2016)

#basel abbas #ruanne abou-rahme #exhibition catalog #social commentary #now reading #institute of contemporary art university of pennsylvania #not sure how to tag my own posts at this point

[archivist-dragonfly]

Book 440

Jess: To and From the Printed Page

Ingrid Schaffner

Independent Curators International 2007

Jess Collins, simply known as Jess, was born Burgess Franklin Collins in Long Beach, California, in 1923. This book, published to accompany a traveling exhibition of the artist’s work in 2007-2009, focuses on the intricately imaginative collages and drawings that he created from the 1950s to the 1990s. Jess’s work is difficult to summarize in a short paragraph. For one thing, it changed a great deal. For example, in 1957, he created a 4-page collage book titled “Tricky Cad: Case IV,” a parody of Dick Tracy comic strips made entirely of collaged Dick Tracy comics. In 1964, he painted “Petals in Paint,” a still life of flowers in a vase that resembles something Van Gogh might have painted. Mostly, however, he is best known for his collages, which owe a debt to the Dadaist collages of Max Ernst. So, while difficult to categorize, what ultimately develops is a picture of a highly idiosyncratic and restless artist.

#bookshelf #illustrated book #library #personal library #personal collection #books #book lover #bibliophile #booklr #jess collins #ingrid schaffner #independent curators international #art #exhibition catalog

[drawdownbooks]

A is A is A (Catalog)

Since 2016, graphic designer Marcello Jacopo Biffi has been obsessively researching alphabets.

Alphabets is Biffi's visual research project in the field of typography. It consists of a group of related alphabets, which share the same DNA but look considerably different. Structured on the same elementary pixel matrix—the archetype, or basic form of the alphabet—the set has undergone multiple digital transformations, producing atypical results. The order of execution, the intensity of the distortion, the number of steps are some of the variables in the serendipitous design process that determine the result, which is never final: each alphabet is a frame taken from a variation sequence progressively moving away from its point of origin. 

The goal is to generate a collection of allographs (different signs representing the same letter) to explore the relationship between glyph (representation of a letter) and grapheme (the minimum unit of a writing system). The result is a formal inquiry into the identity of letter shapes, and, if possible, an attempt to reject this very concept.

This catalog was produced to accompany Biffi's A is A is A exhibition at Marsèll Paradise gallery in Milan. The name of the exhibition is a  nod to Gertrude Stein's famous quote, "A rose is a rose is a rose," affirming Aristotle's law of identity. A selection of Biffi's alphabets—Alphabets 1-8—are presented alongside related film and screen-based projects.

The catalog collects together a replica set of the sheets of paper used to construct the 2020 exhibition, along with loose sheets with essays about the project. Distributed in a screenprinted envelope, the publication's form references Marcel Duchamp's idea of a portable exhibition in a package.

Designed by Marcello Jacopo Biffi Text in Italian

Loose leaf, comes sealed in 1-color screenprinted envelope, 11.75 × 8.5 inches

#Marcello Jacopo Biffi #typography #graphic design #exhibition catalog #alphabets #Draw Down #graphemes